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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 17:22:34 -0800
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Subject: Re: [34/44] Limit sysctl_tcp_mem and sysctl_udp_mem initializers to
 prevent integer overflows.
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
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        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>, stable-review@kernel.org,
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        Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
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        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
        "Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@netcore.fi>,
        James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
        Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>,
        Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
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On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
>
> [ Problem was fixed differently upstream. -DaveM ]

Gaah. I'd really like to see more of a description for things like
this. A commit ID for the alternate fix, or at least a few words about
the different fix or reason why upstream doesn't need the stable
commit.

                  Linus
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